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<div><h1 class="article-title">How do I modify preferences in the Statistics tool?</h1></div>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Go to Statistics.</h2>
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    <p>Select the <strong>Statistics</strong> tool from the Tool Menu of your site. </p>
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    <p>Check the boxes next to the items you want to select. </p>
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<strong>General options: </strong><ul>
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<strong>Only list tools available in site</strong> will automatically filter the list of tools presented on the Report editing page with the tools available in the site.</li>
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<strong>Show their statistics to students</strong> allows students to view their own page statistics. </li>
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<strong>Chart presentation options: </strong><ul>
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<strong>Display item labels on bar charts</strong>: This option will display labels with total values on charts that don't require labels to be shown. (For example, pie charts always require values to be displayed.)</li>
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<strong>Charts alpha-transparency</strong>: This option allows you to specify a transparency level for rendered charts.</li>
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<strong>Activity definition (Tools/events included as 'activity')</strong>: This option allows you to select the tool events that will count as activities on the tool Overview page. <ul>
<li>Clicking on <strong>All tools</strong> will always use all existing tool events. Since tools can be added/removed from a site or made available/unavailable on current instance, this option ensures that all tools are always selected.</li>
<li>Clicking on a tool will select/unselect all related tool events.</li>
<li>Clicking on an event will select/unselect only that event.</li>
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<li>Click <strong>Update</strong> to save your settings.</li>
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<p><em>Note: You also may click the + symbol next to individual tools to expand and show distinct events within a given tool, and the - symbol to close the tool section.</em></p>
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